Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

[mailings02 at ttlexceeded.com (Bob George)]

Don Levey wrote:
> [...] I wand to create a bootable "live CD" for my firewall.
> Basically, I want to keep all the configuration static, and if I need
> to change the rules, I'd burn another CD. Part of the twist is that I
> want to have a small hard drive around for /var to keep logs, and
> whatever state info needs to be writable.

One of my grand, unfinished projects was to have something bootable from
CF or similar which could be hardware-switched to read-only. A USB
reader could also store logs and such easily.

> I've found a few "roll your own" links, but they either don't seem to
>  address what I need, or I don't understand them.  Anyone have any
> links to a write-up for this sort of thing?

Are you planning on rolling your own firewall script(s), or are you
after a solution that has a robust firewall feature included?

- Bob